Juan Pablo Ortega — San Francisco / Bogotá
Co-founder of Rappi. Co-founder & CEO of Yuno — the AI financial infrastructure for global operations, powering McDonald's, Avianca and inDrive across 190+ countries.
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Juan Pablo Ortega — San Francisco / Bogotá
Co-founder of Rappi. Co-founder & CEO of Yuno — the AI financial infrastructure for global operations, powering McDonald's, Avianca and inDrive across 190+ countries.
Co-founder and CEO of Yuno, Juan Pablo Ortega leads the payment orchestration platform powering global enterprises across more than 190 countries — backed by Andreessen Horowitz, DST Global Partners, Tiger Global, Kaszek and monashees.
Before Yuno, he co-founded Rappi, Latin America's defining super-app, where he launched the company's expansion into Mexico, built its payments and fraud teams, and architected its financial services arm as the business grew to a ~$5.2B valuation across nine countries.
He was flying planes at 16 — he still holds an FAA commercial pilot license — and twice received the President's Volunteer Service Award. He believes impossibility only exists in people's minds.
From scrappy delivery startup to a ~$5.2B super-app in nine countries — Latin America's defining consumer-tech story.
Kicked off Rappi's international expansion with its first market outside Colombia — now one of its largest operations.
Architected Rappi's financial-services arm from scratch — the payments and fraud infrastructure behind millions of transactions.
A payment orchestration platform born with a $10M seed from a16z, Kaszek and monashees — one of LatAm's largest seed rounds.
DST Global Partners, a16z and Tiger Global back Yuno's global push.
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